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" It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix. "

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" I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you're most concerned about, but you haven't filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it. "

" I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same. "

" Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don't completely know or understand, that I'm not adept at, so I'm forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There's a good feeling that comes from that. "

" I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible. "

" I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. "

" I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late '70s. It was a good way of getting around the clubs and galleries of the Lower East Side and Soho. "

" I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff. "

" That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit? "

" To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware. "

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" My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food. "

" I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election. "

" Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. "

" As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable. "

" The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray. "

" The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day. "

" I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn. "

" The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information. "

" People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask. "

" Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you're going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there's a kind of bundle. "

" I've never had writer's block. "

" I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert. "

" I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on? "

" Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community. "

" I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing. "

" I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition. "

" I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car. "

" I meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five or six key tunes. That's how it seems to work. I sometimes wonder if they realise they are not getting the whole context. "

" Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet. "

" I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else. "

" Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don't sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck. "